CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The poet describes the fog as a cat. Like a cat, the fog comes silently and slowly. It is sitting on its haunches. And then it moves on.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fog comes quietly and stealthily like a cat. Fog sits looking over the harbour like a cat does. Then it moves to settle somewhere else. Just as cat doesn’t settle at one place and in the same way fog keeps on moving and finally vanishes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Expert-Verified Answer Fog is passive in the poem. Fog passively appeared during the poem’s era. The poet claims that the wintertime fog is approaching the city and the harbor like a cat.

Detailed explanation-4: -He says that the fog comes on its little cat feet, which implies that the fog is like a cat as it comes slowly. He also says that the fog looks over the harbour and the city and then moves on, implying that the fog has covered the city and is sitting and looking at it, thereby again comparing it to a cat.